Long Handle Pizza Peels
Long handle pizza peels are essential for anyone using a wood fired pizza oven. A long handle not only lets you place your pizzas to the back and sides of your oven, it is also essential for turning your pizzas.
There are a couple of considerations when choosing a long handled pizza peel. First of all there is the shape of the peel.
The best peel for picking up and placing pizza into a pizza oven is one that is square in shape, as you need a flat edge to slide under the uncooked pizza. It is also important when buying a square headed peel to buy one with a head that is large enough to easily accommodate the pizza – if it is too small you pizza can sag over the edge of the peel which makes it a lot harder to control.
When it comes to turning the pizza inside the oven a small round headed peel is best as it can be very difficult to do this with a large square headed peel. A small round peel is also suitable for removing the pizza once cooked.
In terms of construction there are two options – wood or aluminium. Long handle wooden pizza peels are the most affordable and they generally do a good job. However if you want to spend the extra money, a peel made from aluminium with a hollow aluminium handle is a worthwhile purchase as the aluminium handle is much lighter than the wooden varieties, which makes manoeuvring your pizza much easier.
Below are the best selling long handle pizza peels on Amazon.com:
American Metalcraft Wooden Pizza Peel 16x17x24″
Paderno Stainless-Steel Pizza Peel, 59″ x 9″
Long Handle Pizza Peel 28″
Made of seasoned hardwood, this peel has a bevelled edge across the front edges of the peel
